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1k was a cheap / barebones computer. (Celeron, or AMD K4 chip, with not much memory, and maybe a floppy disk and slow CD reader). A good one (in the 90s at le

1k was a cheap / barebones computer. (Celeron, or AMD K4 chip, with not much memory, and maybe a floppy disk and slow CD reader). A good one (in the 90s at least) was at least 1.5k-2k, which is 2.8-4k now.

michaelt 1y ago
Internet Archive has a bunch of scanned magazines from the period - such as https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-june-1996-images.zip/page/n13/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-june-1996-image... and as you say, $1000 was on the low end. It's a real blast from the past. I'd forgotten you used to be able to pay $7000 for a laptop, and $100 for a 10-megabit ethernet card.
- ldng 1y ago
  And they used to be obsolete within 3 years, tops.
- ardit33 1y ago
  Yep, thanks for the link! Good laptops were 4-5k minimum. Thats like 7-8k now.